8 research outputs found
Communication Optimization In Intelligent Reflecting Surface Aided Wireless Systems
With the growing demand for high-speed networks, 5G cellular systems provide advantages by utilizing higher frequency bands and wide bandwidth, and supporting high data transmission speeds. However, with the move to operate at high frequencies, obstacles such as buildings in urban areas and other blockages lead to challenges regarding received signal quality in wireless communications. More specifically, high-frequency signals emitted by antennas at the 5G base station (BS) can only propagate over relatively short distances toward users’ devices before being blocked by dense buildings in the area or scattered in different directions. In order to enhance the received signal strength at users’ devices, this thesis analyzes intelligent reflecting surfaces (IRS) that reflect the lens antenna beams toward users’ devices in a single-user scenario
Communication Optimization In Intelligent Reflecting Surface Aided Wireless Systems
With the growing demand for high-speed networks, 5G cellular systems provide advantages by utilizing higher frequency bands and wide bandwidth, and supporting high data transmission speeds. However, with the move to operate at high frequencies, obstacles such as buildings in urban areas and other blockages lead to challenges regarding received signal quality in wireless communications. More specifically, high-frequency signals emitted by antennas at the 5G base station (BS) can only propagate over relatively short distances toward users’ devices before being blocked by dense buildings in the area or scattered in different directions. In order to enhance the received signal strength at users’ devices, this thesis analyzes intelligent reflecting surfaces (IRS) that reflect the lens antenna beams toward users’ devices in a single-user scenario
Sparsifying Dictionary Learning for Beamspace Channel Representation and Estimation in Millimeter-Wave Massive MIMO
Millimeter-wave massive multiple-input-multiple-output (mmWave mMIMO) is
reported as a key enabler in the fifth-generation communication and beyond. It
is customary to use a lens antenna array to transform a mmWave mMIMO channel
into a beamspace where the channel exhibits sparsity. Exploiting this sparsity
enables the applicability of hybrid precoding and achieves pilot reduction.
This beamspace transformation is equivalent to performing a Fourier
transformation of the channel. A motivation for the Fourier character of this
transformation is the fact that the steering response vectors in antenna arrays
are Fourier basis vectors. Still, a Fourier transformation is not necessarily
the optimal one, due to many reasons. Accordingly, this paper proposes using a
learned sparsifying dictionary as the transformation operator leading to
another beamspace. Since the dictionary is obtained by training over actual
channel measurements, this transformation is shown to yield two immediate
advantages. First, is enhancing channel sparsity, thereby leading to more
efficient pilot reduction. Second, is improving the channel representation
quality, and thus reducing the underlying power leakage phenomenon.
Consequently, this allows for both improved channel estimation and facilitated
beam selection in mmWave mMIMO. This is especially the case when the antenna
array is not perfectly uniform. Besides, a learned dictionary is also used as
the precoding operator for the same reasons. Extensive simulations under
various operating scenarios and environments validate the added benefits of
using learned dictionaries in improving the channel estimation quality and the
beam selectivity, thereby improving the spectral efficiency.Comment: This work has been submitted to the IEEE for possible publication.
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Channel Estimation with Dynamic Metasurface Antennas via Model-Based Learning
Dynamic Metasurface Antenna (DMA) is a cutting-edge antenna technology
offering scalable and sustainable solutions for large antenna arrays. The
effectiveness of DMAs stems from their inherent configurable analog signal
processing capabilities, which facilitate cost-limited implementations.
However, when DMAs are used in multiple input multiple output (MIMO)
communication systems, they pose challenges in channel estimation due to their
analog compression. In this paper, we propose two model-based learning methods
to overcome this challenge. Our approach starts by casting channel estimation
as a compressed sensing problem. Here, the sensing matrix is formed using a
random DMA weighting matrix combined with a spatial gridding dictionary. We
then employ the learned iterative shrinkage and thresholding algorithm (LISTA)
to recover the sparse channel parameters. LISTA unfolds the iterative shrinkage
and thresholding algorithm into a neural network and trains the neural network
into a highly efficient channel estimator fitting with the previous channel. As
the sensing matrix is crucial to the accuracy of LISTA recovery, we introduce
another data-aided method, LISTA-sensing matrix optimization (LISTA-SMO), to
jointly optimize the sensing matrix. LISTA-SMO takes LISTA as a backbone and
embeds the sensing matrix optimization layers in LISTA's neural network,
allowing for the optimization of the sensing matrix along with the training of
LISTA. Furthermore, we propose a self-supervised learning technique to tackle
the difficulty of acquiring noise-free data. Our numerical results demonstrate
that LISTA outperforms traditional sparse recovery methods regarding channel
estimation accuracy and efficiency. Besides, LISTA-SMO achieves better channel
accuracy than LISTA, demonstrating the effectiveness in optimizing the sensing
matrix